PS to the Trump administration's great patriotic war on girls' dolls and pencils: notice how "unnecessary foreign luxuries" are female-coded. An outboard motor is crammed with Chinese components, but try to imagine Trump asking, "Do Americans really need to own personal boats?"
May 7, 2025 12:33Never once has Trump said boys should have fewer Nerf guns or Super Soakers. Weird.
Fascism requires misogyny…
Or is it ‘misogyny requires fascism’. Both work these days.
Shouldn't there be a a tariff on marrying (2) women from outside the US?
Yesterday I was out in my workshop, picked up a piece of sandpaper and on the back noticed "Made in Canada."
He calls some people low-IQ...they happen to only be black.
He calls some people nasty...they happen to only be women.
He calls some people rapists and criminals...they happen to only be Latinos.
He calls some people "very bad, not nice"...they happen to be poor or from poor countries, e.g. Africa
Little girls (& I guess boys) should understand the delayed value of having fewer toys or pencils or whatever.
But billionaires won't get that better life by living with fewer private jets, yachts, homes.
The "shared" sacrifice always falls on the working class.
No belt tightening for billionaires.
If China is paying the tariffs on the dolls, won't it hurt China more if my daughter has more dolls??
Which sets it up so that complaining about tariffs, even on "manly" items, is also female-coded and thus to be avoided - or so Team Trump and its propagandists think/hope.
Tools are mostly made in China.
Manly men working on cars don't need 30 sockets. They can have three.
Can reporters please start calling this out “why the repeated focus on girls and dolls? That feels like a weird, narrow window and is downplaying the impact this will have on EVERYone”
Maybe people will have to get by with 2 guns instead of 30
AC parts for the summer. . .
“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.” - Trump
Just change “pencils” to “horsepower outboard motors"
They couldn't have those dumbass boat parades in dear leader's honor without cheap outboard motors...
Any mechanical device like an outboard motor almost certainly has parts from various countries, the impact tariffs are having on then must not be good.
Remember he’s the “daddy” who’s come home to spank us all.
Female and infantile.
Not “does anyone really need a new car right now?” “Maybe that new car will cost a few thousand more bucks”
Exactly. Instead of "Plastic Dolls" for little girls at Walmart (i.e., MAGA don't care) - They should be talking about 80% of the Items sold at Bass Pro Shops, being subject to 125% Tariffs. As summer approaches.
Wouldn’t todays kids be like - what’s a pencil?
Of course he focuses on female-coded products as unnecessary. Little girls should be taught early to deal with less, as they can expect no better as grown women, in his mind.
This is right but the doll-and-pencil stuff also is akin to saying, “We will not let you provide for your children.”
Or how many golf courses should one man own so that he will always have people to play with who will look the other way as he cheats his way around the course?
Trump's stupid, cruel, ignorant, racist and fascist voters, are 100% behind him. They will literally sacrifice the last penny that they have in the bank, as well as their own lives, in obedient fealty to Mad King Donald.
A cult now rules America, and there is no going back.
Do we need an extra two BIG screen TVs in our homes,or that extra power tool you’ll only use once.
Don't forget anti-intellectual. They're talking about pencils, not spraypaint.
Exactly!
Thank you for saying this!
Pretty sure Viagra is mostly imported but he didn’t go there either.
Wait for it
Republicanism is Nazism.
Super-rich men taking dolls away from middle-class little girls is not a good look.
How is a pencil “female coded”?
Now do yachts, Italian suits & handbags & trips into space with Bezos.
How many MAGA hats is enough?
What no way, are you saying the convicted rapist is sexist too?
Good point!
I ONCE asked "Do Americans really need to own SKIN" and the Pentagon sent a DRONE shaped like a BOAT. It MISSED. I ate it. NOW I'M THE OUTBOARD MOTOR!
Or nerf guns?
And why is he constantly talking about Christmas…
Having food to eat is soooo overrated.